Yes, that is the comment they made earlier and the reason they went on a down vote crusade.
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Yes, that is the comment they made earlier and the reason they went on a down vote crusade.
I assume you’re talking about Desktop Environments. Yes, of course. KDE and Gnome rival MacOS as far as usability goes. The better part is that other software development groups port their software over to Linux as well and make it as seamless as possible.
People run into confusion here when people flood the comments on user questions like this, so let me shut that down right now.
If you need something that is a straight Desktop Environment, get a distro with KDE or Gnome, and a known OS that will have a lot of user base getting questions and answers if you even run into any.
Fedora or Ubuntu. Don’t listen to anyone arguing for their preferred favorites.
Don’t listen to performance comments.
You want a solid, no issues, not needing to look for help kind of distro. It’s those two, no question, and they both have KDE and Gnome variants.
That’s really about it.
This reminds me. What happened to that tldr bot? I did appreciate the summaries, even if they weren’t perfect.
She did release a book 8 months ago. It’s in the community tab of her YT page.
They did, and 3 hours before you made this comment.
It can also be extremely picky about what hardware it will run on. I actively use 3 different editors based on what tasks the project calls for since some things are just easier/faster with different programs. Kdenlive and Olive will get 90% of stuff done easily in my (admittedly limited) experience and installation for either is just using your package manager.
I mean, leave it to us weirdos on sdf for stuff like this.
The upfront cost for Starlink is insane for most people, especially those in rural areas.
budgie or something idk I use Awesome
I am not in the UK, but wound up biting the bullet and using QubesOS for my business machine. It’s kind of like a more straightforward to use everyday set of VMs. I have the windows qube there for running CAD/CAM and the sadly sometimes necessary Chrome install. I know this isn’t an ideal solution, but it is the best that I personally have been able to come up with without going through the headache of dual booting, especially when dealing with either govt stuff, need Chrome for crappy websites my clients sometimes force me to use, or actually needing proprietary software that I have licensed for my business (MasterCam in my case).
Is noone going to say anything about what’s going on in the terminal?
I’m a fan of Free Beer because it’s beer that can be free as in free Beer and free as in freedom.
New bloatware installs with every update. I hate it.
Console output with status of the current operation, including error and warning messages
Yeah, it is obvious hyperbole.
Commenting to update: With great sadness, I tried undoing my multimonitor setup and going back to just the laptop display, This worked flawlessly! I don’t know if if the system wasn’t respecting my configs, the hardware somehow healed itself, or what. For now, I’m back in pure laptop mode (which sucks, because 22" vs 15" is a giant downgrade). However, it’s all working…
I mostly appreciate the pre-installed browser that takes many less steps to harden than a fresh install.
Very fair. I’m a far cry from an advanced user - I know just enough to be dangerous to myself, and didn’t see that. As I said in another comment, though, I do like that the default browser is somewhat hardened and uses a decent searx instance as the default search. It does seem to be marketed towards teenagers, though, unfortunately.
Yeah, I get that. I do, however, really like how FireDragon comes with a lot of the extension I’d like to use, and with searx as the default web search. It also takes almost no time to switch to a much better KDE layout as opposed to the seemingly script kiddie dr4a6onized default.
iirc it is during install now. You have to do things that are way beyond the average user’s knowledge or ability to enable a local account.